PUBLISHED WORKS
The Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor
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This is an original translation of Sinbad the Sailor from the original Arabic 1840 Calcutta edition of The Arabian Nights, rendered into elegant modern English while preserving its authentic rhythm, moral texture, and spiritual depth. Unlike European adaptations that reshaped Sinbad into a mere adventurer, this work restores him as he was known in the Islamic world, a merchant-sage whose voyages mirror the inner journey of the soul.
Through this translation, the seas of Sinbad become a stage where divine decree, wonder, and human striving intertwine. Each island, storm, and monster conceals a deeper truth: that what we call fortune or misfortune are but waves in the ocean of destiny.
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The Tree of Civilization
The Muslim world is wounded, but the deepest wound is not external — it is the loss of vision within. For too many Muslims today, Islam has been reduced to fragments: rituals without mission, identity without responsibility, faith without civilization. The average believer sees himself as an individual chasing a career, a lifestyle, and personal success, but no longer as a vital part of a greater whole.
The Ummah, once imagined as a single body, now feels distant, abstract, or worse, irrelevant. Yet in truth, the Muslim world is vast — nearly two billion people across every continent. In numbers, it appears formidable, a global giant. But this size is also its illusion. Numbers alone do not make a civilization. A billion fragments do not form a whole. The modern dilemma is precisely this: how can sheer demographic weight be transformed into civilizational strength — into vision, discipline, and enduring institutions?
This question lies at the heart of The Civilizational Tree. Abdulaziz Abdi argues that what is needed is not another ideology or movement, but a civilizational vision — a way of seeing Islam not only as personal faith but as a living system that organizes society, nourishes culture, and guides humanity. Such a vision must belong to every Muslim, not only to scholars or leaders. The Ummah is not an idea but a living body and every believer is a vital organ within it. Its revival begins when ordinary Muslims rediscover their place in that body, understanding that their actions, professions, and creativity all feed the same living root.
Drawing on the Qur’anic symbol of the “Good Tree,” Abdi reimagines civilization as a living organism whose vitality depends on the harmony of all its parts. The soil represents spirituality — the foundation of divine orientation and sincerity. The water symbolizes intellect — the current of understanding and reflection that nourishes growth. The roots are morals — the unseen ethical principles that give stability and depth. The trunk is the economy — the structural system through which sustenance and strength circulate. From it extend the branches of organizations and institutions, distributing vitality throughout society. The leaves and flowers embody media, art, and culture — the visible expressions that capture light, reveal beauty, and spread meaning. The fruits are education — the nourishment that transmits knowledge and wisdom to future generations. Surrounding all are the thorns of legal defense, which guard the civilization’s integrity against injustice and decay.
When any of these parts weakens, the whole organism suffers. The tree cannot live on soil alone, nor can roots thrive without water or branches bear fruit without the trunk. Each part depends on the others and exists to sustain them. This interdependence is the essence of civilization: a living unity in which spirit, intellect, morality, economy, culture, and law continuously nourish one another.
Ultimately, The Civilizational Tree is both diagnosis and remedy — a practical book for Muslims to actively rediscover their place in the living body of the Ummah, and through that rediscovery, to heal a fractured world.
The Seven Seas Within: A Commentary on the Voyages of Sinbad (Book)
In this original commentary, Abdulaziz Abdi reopens one of the great vaults of Islamic imagination — The Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor — to uncover the spiritual treasures that have lain buried since for centuries. Through years of orientalist translations and adaptations, Sinbad was reduced to a merchant of luck and adventure. The Seven Seas Within restores him to what he truly was: a voyager of the soul.
For the first time, Abdi deciphers the symbolic meanings embedded in the text — revealing the moral, cosmological, and metaphysical dimensions that early Muslim storytellers encoded beneath its surface. Each voyage is shown to mirror a stage in the human journey from heedlessness to awakening, pride to surrender, and fragmentation to unity.
Drawing from Sufi metaphysics and Qur’anic symbolism, the commentary invites readers — especially Muslims — to rediscover the depth of their own tradition: a tradition where myth and meaning were never separate, and where every story was a mirror of the self.
The work accompanies Abdi’s faithful translation of the 1840 Calcutta text, reuniting the story with its authentic Eastern voice. Together, they revive the imaginative and spiritual power of Islamic literature — not as nostalgia, but as a path toward renewal.
The Seven Seas Within is both excavation and revival — an invitation to see again the ocean of wisdom that Islam once poured into story, art, and life itself.
Adamic Cosmology
In every generation, Muslims have wrestled with their place in the divine plan. But never before has this question felt so personal, so urgent, and so destabilizing. In an age of information overload, algorithmic distraction, and existential fatigue, the modern Muslim is not asking abstract questions about essence or accident, they are asking, “Why am I alive?”, “Why am I here?” or “Why did Allah allow this to happen to me?”
Caught between deterministic despair and individualistic delusion, many believers stand in a crisis of meaning, between a theology that silences doubt and a secularism that erases the soul. Abdulaziz Abdi argues that our young people are not turning away from Islam because they are immoral, but because no one has taught them how to think Islamically in the face of pain, injustice, and inner conflict. The tools they are given, memorized āyāt, a few aḥādīth, and the notion of qadar, are too often presented as platitudes rather than as keys to unlock layered wisdom.
When someone says, “Trust Allah,” it is frequently a command to stop thinking. Yet the Qur’an did not come to silence thought, it came to ignite it. In its golden age, theology served an existential function: it explained not only who God is, but how divine wisdom unfolds within the human story. The modern discourse, by contrast, has become sterile and defensive — obsessed with proving God’s existence rather than helping believers feel God’s nearness.
In Adamic Cosmology, Abdi restores theology to its original purpose: as a mirror for the soul. Drawing from Qur’anic narrative, Sufi metaphysics, and contemporary psychology, the book reconstructs a vision of the human being as the meeting point between the divine and the created.
By reuniting cosmology with inner experience, Abdi shows that understanding divine decree is not a philosophical puzzle, but a path to serenity. Every trial, every failure, every joy becomes a reflection of the same light refracted through the self. Adamic Cosmology invites readers to rediscover themselves not as helpless subjects of fate, but as conscious agents within God’s unfolding creation — participants in the eternal dialogue between the human and the Real.
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